Love him or hate him, he was never afraid to take a swing (rightfully, or wrongfully)
Canadian-Pastry
Man, even if Kyle’s teams were dog-water defensively they were never THIS boring.
Fleshy-Butthole
We’re never happy with what we have.
No-Gift-2350
Dubas wasn’t perfect, and no GM is.
But the guy was so handicapped by Shannahan and probably ownership as well we never truly got to see how good he could become.
And now he’s debatably a top 5 GM in the sport.
xmrgonex
Dubas’ problem was he massively overpaid
That was it
Otherwise he was great
I said this for years and everyone told me I was wrong and he was the drizzling shits.
Ooook.
spaceporter
I felt it should have been Keefe when Dubas was fired, but at some point Dubas needed to go, too. However, if even half of what is rumoured is true, then Shanny should have been the second to go way earlier and Dubas promoted to head of everything.
Sacred_soul
Dubas sucked at giving out contracts but he and tre are pretty similar with trades
COS89
Lest we forget.
1st ,and two 4th round picks for Foligno and Steffan Noesen, Mason Marchment for Denis Malgin , Nazem Kadri for Kerfoot and Tyson Barrie , Erik Gustafson for Rasmus Sandin , 1st and 2nd round pick for Jake McCabe and Lafferty, 1st 2nd and 3rd round picks for Ryan O’Rielly and Noel Acciari , two 2nd and one 3rd round picks for Giordano and Blackwell, and plenty more. Dubas traded 27 draft picks, drafted 35 players in 5 years with only 5 players having played in over 200 hundred games with 2 of them being traded away by him. The other 3? Robertson, Knies and Holmberg.
It sucks we are back to the days of celebrating that the team got worse after the trade deadline.
Loud_Appeal_8895
I also want to add that Joe Bowen having this giant turd of a season be his final one calling games sucks hard.
External-Pace-1822
When Dubas made trades/signings you could always understand the thought process and even if you didn’t like it your like ok fine whatever. Trevling you are just left wondering what this person did to get the job. Just so incompetent.
Biologyboii
Kyle was under rated. And neutered by Shanny
-GeorgeBonanza
So, my next question is… when does Matthews leave? I know his contract is up 2028, but the best time to trade him for assets would be 2026-2027, so I imagine next season at some point he’ll be gone. Maybe even this off season.
The_Quietest_Moments
And you don’t know what you got til it’s gone
TheDeek
I really miss the bad contracts, drafting and developing basically nobody, letting our free agents walking for nothing and complete inability to build a defense. Oh and inability to find a goalie.
Tre etc suck but let’s be real here…
You all miss mrazek samsonov and Matt Murray that much? How are topi and roni doing? Bracco leading our team in points yet?
chzburgers4life
Dark days ahead my friends. At least we’ve got the Jays.
Falconflyer75
At the very least we should miss Shanny
Say what u will he left the leafs in far better shape than when he got them
Brad was hired to be his puppet and the second Shanny left the team imploded
And yes he refused to move off the core 4 but I dont necessarily blame him for that,
they consistently made the playoffs and usually lost to teams by a very narrow margin that went on to make it to or even win the finals
It’s entirely possible they could have gotten lucky given enough attempts (maybe had a 1/20 chance) and we just gave that up for a 0% chance
mohitosnburritos
I can’t believe we paid a 1st and a prospect for 50 games of a 4th line centre and a 3rd.
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Love him or hate him, he was never afraid to take a swing (rightfully, or wrongfully)
Man, even if Kyle’s teams were dog-water defensively they were never THIS boring.
We’re never happy with what we have.
Dubas wasn’t perfect, and no GM is.
But the guy was so handicapped by Shannahan and probably ownership as well we never truly got to see how good he could become.
And now he’s debatably a top 5 GM in the sport.
Dubas’ problem was he massively overpaid
That was it
Otherwise he was great
I said this for years and everyone told me I was wrong and he was the drizzling shits.
Ooook.
I felt it should have been Keefe when Dubas was fired, but at some point Dubas needed to go, too. However, if even half of what is rumoured is true, then Shanny should have been the second to go way earlier and Dubas promoted to head of everything.
Dubas sucked at giving out contracts but he and tre are pretty similar with trades
Lest we forget.
1st ,and two 4th round picks for Foligno and Steffan Noesen, Mason Marchment for Denis Malgin , Nazem Kadri for Kerfoot and Tyson Barrie , Erik Gustafson for Rasmus Sandin , 1st and 2nd round pick for Jake McCabe and Lafferty, 1st 2nd and 3rd round picks for Ryan O’Rielly and Noel Acciari , two 2nd and one 3rd round picks for Giordano and Blackwell, and plenty more. Dubas traded 27 draft picks, drafted 35 players in 5 years with only 5 players having played in over 200 hundred games with 2 of them being traded away by him. The other 3? Robertson, Knies and Holmberg.
You’re right, it was way better under Dubas….
https://preview.redd.it/mccgky5c1jng1.jpeg?width=1158&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb569aece2f0d9519bbac917f972ac1539e8b7e3
It sucks we are back to the days of celebrating that the team got worse after the trade deadline.
I also want to add that Joe Bowen having this giant turd of a season be his final one calling games sucks hard.
When Dubas made trades/signings you could always understand the thought process and even if you didn’t like it your like ok fine whatever. Trevling you are just left wondering what this person did to get the job. Just so incompetent.
Kyle was under rated. And neutered by Shanny
So, my next question is… when does Matthews leave? I know his contract is up 2028, but the best time to trade him for assets would be 2026-2027, so I imagine next season at some point he’ll be gone. Maybe even this off season.
And you don’t know what you got til it’s gone
I really miss the bad contracts, drafting and developing basically nobody, letting our free agents walking for nothing and complete inability to build a defense. Oh and inability to find a goalie.
Tre etc suck but let’s be real here…
You all miss mrazek samsonov and Matt Murray that much? How are topi and roni doing? Bracco leading our team in points yet?
Dark days ahead my friends. At least we’ve got the Jays.
At the very least we should miss Shanny
Say what u will he left the leafs in far better shape than when he got them
Brad was hired to be his puppet and the second Shanny left the team imploded
And yes he refused to move off the core 4 but I dont necessarily blame him for that,
they consistently made the playoffs and usually lost to teams by a very narrow margin that went on to make it to or even win the finals
It’s entirely possible they could have gotten lucky given enough attempts (maybe had a 1/20 chance) and we just gave that up for a 0% chance
I can’t believe we paid a 1st and a prospect for 50 games of a 4th line centre and a 3rd.